Originally Posted by
Australopithecus
I guess the disconnect between Cessnapete's experience and the local conditions are that Australia still has a large GA and regional pool to recruit from. There are a few cadet schemes to be sure, and that is a growing profit centre for airlines here.
The big difference in as far as the Australian "cadet" model is that it is reliant upon swarms of "applicants" coughing up from parents money to pay for training or indeed being prepared to borrow it from the taxpayer.
Thus is a key point of difference.
Vertical integration it may be and one airline in particular fills column inches with the number of applicants, but airlines in Australia and not actually addressing the structural shortage. This shortage is largely demographic and partly an own goal: Terms and conditions have created a lack of "applicants".
When it is finally acknowledged that the conditions need improvement to induce additional supply, these cadet factories will, just like European airlines are finding becomes cost centres as airlines rightly pay for product (pilots) that produce operating revenue.